2023-11-09 05:57:36
Israeli troops and Hamas militants appeared to be fighting at close range in Gaza City on the 8th. The Israel Defense Forces said they had destroyed 130 Hamas tunnel shafts and that troops had advanced into the heart of Gaza City.
According to sources from Hamas and another armed group, Islamic Jihad, Hamas fighters used underground tunnels to lay ambushes and resisted Israeli tanks tenaciously.
The Israel Defense Forces said on the 8th that they had destroyed 130 Hamas tunnel shafts and that their troops had advanced into the center of Gaza City. (Photo by Ali Jadallah/Anadolu/Getty Images) (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Archyde.com reported that Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said on the 8th that combat engineers used explosive devices to destroy the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas’s tunnel network that spread hundreds of kilometers under Gaza. .
The Israeli army says it has destroyed 130 tunnel shafts so far. The Israeli army said that its troops have advanced into the center of Gaza City, the main stronghold of Hamas and the largest city in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas, on the other hand, said its fighters inflicted heavy losses on the other side. The video released by the Hamas armed wing on the 8th appeared to show fierce street fighting breaking out next to bombed buildings in Gaza City.
A video released by Hamas on the 8th showed fighters running through the ruins before stopping to attack Israeli tanks with shoulder-fired missiles. Another video shows the men using buildings and garbage trucks as cover and shooting with rifles. Archyde.com could not confirm the authenticity of the video.
Exiled Hamas commander Saleh al-Arouri told Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV that Israeli forces may gain control of certain areas of Gaza. “But that doesn’t stop the rebels from fighting against soldiers and tanks. The wider and larger (Israel’s) presence on the ground is, the deeper the damage will be,” he said.
Hamas launched a cross-border attack on southern Israel on October 7, prompting Israel to attack Gaza in response. According to Israeli statistics, Hamas militants killed 1,400 people during the attack, most of them civilians, and took about 240 hostages. Israel also stated that 33 Israeli soldiers have been killed so far.
Palestinian officials said that as of the 8th, Israeli attacks had killed 10,569 people in Gaza, 40% of whom were children.
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